political posturing

Tonight you missed an old-fashioned love-in. Everybody was praising each other, hugging, and blowing air kisses at each other. First was Chet Fields, falling over himself heaping bouquets of compliments and praise for the great job the Council has been doing. It was about then that I began to get dyspeptic. It was embarrassing to have another cheerleader take the podium. Then they agreed to extend Gorlands contract and shoveled many more loads of... well.. manure in his direction. Gym was effusive in his unqualified support and praise of Gorland. Nobody mentioned the monies we lost from late withdrawals in our pension funds, the pool taping incident, or his lack of controls and procedures to document the pool admissions. Garcia made a special effort to compliment Gymbo for hiring Gorland, saying Gymbo has a "wonderful track record in the hiring of city employees, etc". Nobody even mentioned the BIG TIME screwup in the hiring of our most recent Rec Director. They reviewed the hiring process with NO discussion and, after congratulating themselves on doing a wonderful job AGAIN, made no changes or adjustments, or indications that ANY lessons had been learned from THAT experience! All is well. We are wonderful. We have NOTHING to learn from that unfortunate experience because we are so wonderful. It COULDNT have been anything WE did! There could have been more after that, but my dyspepsia had turned into regurgitation by then and I felt a need to excuse myself to the bathroom. Dotson wasnt there so NO serious questions were asked, or answered. A contrived farce to bolster each others standing, without a shred of evidence or balance to back up those accolades. No debate, no discussion, no serious inquiry, without Dotson. Political gladhanding in its most flagrant, obvious, and embarrassing form. Dr. Mel Johnson

memory gaps

Apparently Alzheimer has been diagnosed on all of our Council members. At the Borgemann's Fall Love-in it was all hearts and flowers. ALL of the Council members showered him with praise for the job he has been doing. Somehow, they have conveniently FORGOT the multiple expensive (to the residents) financial fiascos that have occurred, and continue occurring, on his watch. We must have the ONLY 500k+ bathrooms in the state, maybe in several states. TWO YEARS to get 2 bathrooms built is a sign of great management? $450+ a square foot is great management? Over $500 a square foot for the CC addition AND two years for that 520 square foot project is a sign of good management? FORGETTING to include water, sewer, and electric hookups to the bathrooms is NOT a sure sign of Alzheimers? Losing 300k a year on the pool so that 6 Springs kids can use it year-round is a sign of even slightly competent management? Three years after the revenues were posted online there were more than a DOZEN glaring errors in the numbers, some were HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars off. Every project he touches costs us, the taxpayers, 300%, 400 % and more than it would cost anybody else! Why is that? and WHERE is that money going? NOBODY asks Gym the hard questions, nobody! He has voluntarily forgone a raise this year, as he should, considering he has NO Water and Sewer administering to do! He should take a 20% pay cut for that alone! Alzheimers isnt a pretty thing to see, and neither is gross incompetence, poor judgement, and/or corruption.